citi_digits

MIT Citi Digits

Development Environment

install virtualenv
create virtualenv city_digits
run python setup.py install

Inital Setup

python manage.py syncdb
python manage.py migrate citi_digits
mkdir media/backup
python manage.py import_old_data

Production setup

The production environment for this application is ghostmap.mit.edu. The home directory will be '/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/v/d/vdat' ($HOME_DIRECTORY). The installation
directions below are specific to this production instance and may need to be altered for another server.

2013_09_07 : Created ssh key-pair for client's github account
                $ ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "[email protected]"

           : Added generated key-pair to client's github SSH Keys

           : created virtual environment directory at $HOME_DIRECTORY/.virtualenv

           : made virtual environment for project
                $ virtualenv --no-site-packages city_digits

           : Checked out application from client's github to '$HOME_DIRECTORY/app/'
                $ git clone [email protected]:sw2279/citi_digits.git

           : Activate virtual environment and install app dependencies
                $ source $HOME_DIRECTORY/.virtualenv/city_digits/bin/activate

           : Install needed mysql configs
                $ sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev python-dev

           : install app dependencies
                $ python setup.py install

           : install mod_wsgi for apache
                $ sudo aptitude install libapache2-mod-python libapache2-mod-wsgi

           : create media directory and backup directory
                $ mkdir media; mkdir media/backup ; chmod a+rw media

           : add project apache config (below)

           : install mysql (pw: citydigits)
                $ sudo apt-get install mysql-server

           : secure mysql server (answer yes to all questions)
                $ mysql_secure_installation

           : create database and project user
                $ mysql -u root -p
                mysql> create database citi_digits;
                mysql> grant all on citi_digits.* to 'city_user' identified by 'Eo@_rKR7)ZohFWT';

           : update settings.py with db user and password

           : set upstream repo (this will allow client to fetch updates from developers github)
                $ git remote add upstream https://github.com/datvikash/citi_digits.git

            : install dateutil.parser
                $ sudo pip install python-dateutil --upgrade

           : do initial setup
                $ python manage.py syncdb
                $ python manage.py migrate citi_digits
                $ python manage.py import_old_data

Apache config

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City Digits WSGI

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Alias /favicon.ico /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/v/d/vdat/app/citi_digits/mit_civic/citi_digits/static/favicon.ico

AliasMatch ^/([^/]*.css) /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/v/d/vdat/app/citi_digits/mit_civic/citi_digits/static/css/$1

Alias /media/ /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/v/d/vdat/app/citi_digits/mit_civic/media/ Alias /static/ /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/v/d/vdat/app/citi_digits/mit_civic/citi_digits/static/

<Directory /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/v/d/vdat/app/citi_digits/mit_civic/citi_digits/static> Order deny,allow Allow from all

<Directory /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/v/d/vdat/app/citi_digits/mit_civic/media> Order deny,allow Allow from all

WSGIScriptAlias /citydigits /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/v/d/vdat/app/citi_digits/mit_civic/mit_civic/wsgi.py WSGIPythonPath /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/v/d/vdat/app/citi_digits/mit_civic:/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/v/d/vdat/.virtualenv/city_digits/lib/python2.6/site-packages #WSGIPythonPath /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/v/d/vdat/app/citi_digits/mit_civic

<Directory /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/v/d/vdat/app/citi_digits/mit_civic/mit_civic> Order deny,allow Allow from all

pip uninstall PIL apt-get install libjpeg-dev apt-get install zlib1g-dev apt-get install libpng12-dev pip install PIL